Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Welfare
Katharine Briar-Lawson
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Child and family welfare; poverty and unemployment; community collaboration and service integration
Campus phone: 442-5324
Campus email: [email protected]
Keith Chan
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Acculturation; immigrant health; elderly Asian Americans
Campus phone: 442-2589
Campus email: [email protected]
Nancy Claiborne
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Human service organizations; design and delivery of service; child welfare; health systems
Campus phone: 442-5349
Campus email: [email protected]
Thomas L. Gais
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Director
Department: Rockefeller Institute of Government
Expert in the following:
Education; Federalism; government reform; higher education; social service spending; welfare reform
Campus phone: (518) 443-5238
Campus email: [email protected]
Julia Hastings
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Poverty issues among ethnic minority populations; mental health and welfare participation dynamics; African American health and mental health disparities
Campus phone: 591-8751
Campus email: [email protected]
Hayward Horton
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
Demography; race and ethnicity; rural sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4907
Campus email: [email protected]
Lani Jones
School of Social Welfare
Associate Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Mental health; Black feminism and therapy; evidenced-based practice and group work
Campus phone: 442-5167
Campus email: [email protected]
Hal Lawson
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
School-family-community partnerships; child welfare; interprofessional collaboration
Campus phone: 442-5355
Campus email: [email protected]
Mary McCarthy
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Dean
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Child welfare; children and families; political social work
Campus phone: 442-5338
Campus email: [email protected]
Linda Mertz
School of Social Welfare
Coordinator
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Aging; social work; caregiving; social work education and field learning; community partnerships
Campus phone: (518) 442-5327
Campus email: [email protected]
Loretta Pyles
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Economic justice; gender-based violence; disaster and social inequality; community organizing
Campus phone: 442-5152
Campus email: [email protected]
Blanca Ramos
School of Social Welfare
Associate Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Immigration; Latino aging community; Hispanic cultures in the U.S.; cross-cultural social work
Campus phone: 442-5365
Campus email: [email protected]
Barbara Rio
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Director
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Domestic violence; diversity
Campus phone: 442-3488
Campus email: [email protected]
Ronald Toseland
School of Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Gerontology; social work practice
Campus phone: 442-5353
Campus email: [email protected]
Lynn Warner
School of Social Welfare
Interim Dean
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Substance abuse; mental health policy
Campus phone: 591-8734
Campus email: [email protected]
